Twitter CEO debunks idea that Twitter will become more like Facebook as people freak out

There's a meltdown happening on Twitter over a
Buzzfeed report that Twitter may soon switch to an
"algorithmic" method of displaying tweets by relevance, instead
of the current way of showing them in reverse-chronological
order, like a backward timeline.

In other words, Twitter might be thinking of becoming more like
Facebook, which guesses what users will be interested in and
shows those posts first. People can always switch back to a
straight timeline on Facebook, but the setting isn't easy to
find.

Twitter did not comment on the report, but CEO Jack Dorsey
appeared to debunk it late Saturday afternoon:

Hello Twitter! Regarding #RIPTwitter: I want you all to know we're always listening. We never planned to reorder timelines next week.

First, people on Twitter like nothing more than complaining about
Twitter on Twitter.

Second, people hate change.

For journalists and hardcore Twitter users — who are few — the
reverse-chronological timeline is essential, as it's the only way
to navigate the stream of real-time information provided by
the people and publications they follow. Journalists
particularly like it because it lets them see breaking news super
fast and also gives them a record of who was "first" on a story,
which is a point of pride that the rest of the world could not
possibly care less about.

Showing people the information they're most likely to be
interested in, rather than every meaningless tweetstorm and
inside-y argument in precise reverse order, might actually make
the service more interesting and approachable for the billions
who don't use Twitter at all.